Marion Jones survives scare on home track

12 June 1999  Raleigh, USA - World 100m Champion
Marion Jones survived a final-round scare to win the long jump on her home track
Saturday at the Pontiac Grand Prix Invitational. The meet was the fourth stop of the USA
Track & Field's Golden Spike Tour.

Jones trailed fellow American Adrien Sawyer until her last
jump, when she landed awkwardly in the pit, albeit winning the competition with a 7.01m
jump, narrowly missing Italian Fiona May's world leading mark of 7.02m . She was carried
from the pit by her husband, world-class shot-putter C.J. Hunter, before she took several
steps and trainers applied ice to her right knee.

"I just came down a little bit wrong," said
Jones. "I think I scared myself a little bit, but there's nothing to be concerned
about."

Her coach, Trevor Graham, said the knee would be checked on
Sunday, "but I think she will be OK."

The meeting was her final tune-up before the U.S.
Championships in Eugene, Oregon, on June 24-27. She will compete in the 200m and long jump
at the nationals before trying for gold medals in those two events, the women's 100m and
the 4x400m relay at August's World Championships in Seville.

U.S. Olympian Jearl Miles-Clark ran 1999's world-leading
400m at the meeting, clocking 50.68 seconds. The times also were fast in the men's 400m,
where U.S. champion Jerome Young ran 44.36 seconds.

Olympic champion Allen Johnson, recovering from a stress
fracture, showed he is back in top form, skimming the high sticks in 13.22 to turn
back a quality field that included two-time Olympic Champion Roger Kingdom and NCAA
Champion Terrance Trammell.